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FAIRFAX, Va. (WUSA9) -- Jesse Matthew, the suspect in custody for the abduction of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, has been indicted on charges related to a 2005 rape in Fairfax.

Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Morrogh will announce the indictment at a 4:30 press conference.

Forensic evidence links Jesse Matthew to the 2009 disappearance of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington in Charlottesville, which had previously been linked to the Fairfax rape, officials said.

Two years after Morgan Harrington's remains were found, the FBI released a sketch of the suspect.

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Help Us Catch a KillerUnknown Offender Linked by DNA in Two Separate Cases

06/13/12

On a Saturday night in October 2009, college student Morgan Harrington left a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and disappeared. It would be several months before her body was discovered in a field about 10 miles away.

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DNA recovered in the Harrington case was linked to an unknown offender in a September 2005 sexual assault in Fairfax City. A 26-year-old woman was attacked at night while walking home from a grocery store. The offender was scared away by a passerby—but the victim got a good look at him, enabling a Fairfax City Police artist to produce a sketch of the attacker.

“It was a remarkable break to get the DNA match,” said FBI Special Agent Jane Collins. The forensic evidence linked the two cases, so now we have a face to put with the suspect in the Harrington case. The suspect is described as an African-American male with black hair and facial hair (at the time of the 2005 attack). He is approximately 6 feet tall and was believed to be between the ages of 25 and 35 years old at the time of the Fairfax City assault.

Loving Natalee - Beth HollowayPage 219: I have to make difficult choices every day. I have to make a conscious decision every morning when I wake up not to be bitter, not to live in resentment and let anger control me. It's not easy. I ask God to help me._____

“A person of integrity expects to be believed and when he’s not, he let’s time prove him right.” -unknown

FAIRFAX, Va. — Hannah Graham abduction suspect Jesse Matthew Jr. was indicted Monday in connection with a 2005 rape in Fairfax, Virginia. An official announcement is expected at 4:30 p.m., which WTVR.com plans to stream LIVE.

A grand jury indicted Matthew on Monday for attempted capital murder, addiction and sexual penetration with an object, according to documents filed in Fairfax County Circuit Court.

The indictment spells out the three charges against Matthew.

“On or about the 24th day of September, 2005, in the City of Fairfax, Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr. did feloniously, willfully, deliberately, intentionally and with premeditate attempt to kill R.G. in the commission of or subsequent to an abduction with the intent to defile,” the first count against Matthew reads.

The second count says that Matthew “did feloniously abduct R.G. with the intent to defile.”

The third count states that Matthew penetrated the victim “against her will, by force, threat or intimidation.”More...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The Albemarle County landscaper whose tip may have led to the discovery of human remains in the search for Hannah Graham says buzzards pointed the way.

Bobby Pugh tells WTOP and WVTF that as he drove to work one day in late September or early October, his eyes were drawn to the abandoned home at 3193 Old Lynchburg Road, on a winding, narrow stretch of the road that connects Charlottesville to Lynchburg.

"I noticed there was quite a few buzzards on the roof, as well as in the trees in the backyard, maybe 20 to 30 of them," says Pugh. "They were definitely there scavenging for something."

Pugh, a hunter, noticed the vultures weren't the common turkey vultures that are often seen near roadkill.

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“A person of integrity expects to be believed and when he’s not, he let’s time prove him right.” -unknown

The man who called in a tip that may have helped lead to the discovery of human remains behind an empty house in southern Albemarle says that it was the sheer number of vultures that caught his eye

Longtime resident Bobby Pugh says he had passed by the house many times before. But on one recent day, on his way to a landscaping job, he spotted as many as 30 buzzards. "And happened to look over and notice the buzzards on the roof and on the trees. It was too many for a normal reason. I didn't think it was a skunk carcass or something-- it was a lot, and it caught my eye."

Pugh says he went ahead to the job but couldn't erase memory of the buzzards-- the voracious and sometimes aggressive black-headed variety. As it turned out, he didn't have to. The buzzards were still there.

"I worked for a couple of hours just past that, and the whole time I was thinking, 'That's weird; that's weird.' And on my way back I slowed down and looked again and thought, "That's odd; I need to call." Pugh says he knew that investigators, some of whom are his friends, were getting thousands of similar tips about the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.

"I felt weird calling because I didn't want to reroute a positive part of the investigation, but I felt that I should call."

Later, a member of a team from the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Department reported finding skeletal remains in the yard of that site, 3193 Old Lynchburg Road.More...

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" Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Moynihan